User:Merovingian/archive-6

Stars

Is it really neccessary to have a seperate article for Pi Cancri, Omicron2 Cancri, Rho2 Cancri, Sigma1 Cancri, Sigma2 Cancri, Sigma3 Cancri, or the 8 others you have created so far, when each of them only contain one line of text? Wouldn't it be better to have something like Stars in the Constellation Cancer or something like that? I do not see the purpose of creating individual articles for non-notable stars. - Pure blade | ^☼ 03:40, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

See the article for deletion page on 56 Aquilae for a more detailed inquiry regarding this issue.--Gaff ^talk 03:44, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

		An Award
		For taking things to another level by brightening the sky with so many stars, I award you this surreal barnstar.

--Gaff ^talk 04:59, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Esperanza Spam

Hello Esperanzians! A few announcements.

The Advisory Committee election results are in. In tranch A are Acetic Acid and Flcelloguy. In tranch B are Ryan Norton and Bratsche.

My other annoouncement is that our founder, JCarriker, has founded Esperanza's sister project, Wikipediology. I have written two essays here (my name is Matt Binder). My essays are under Teenage Wikipedians and Anon Editors.

On behalf of myself and Jay Carriker and the other wikipediologists, I would appreciate it if you were to join.

Cheers Esperanza! R e dwolf24 (talk—How's my driving?) 23:44, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Flamsteed-designation stars in Cancer

Is it really worthwhile to create substubs for fairly obscure stars? Right now, we have articles for many reasonably bright naked-eye stars (Bayer-designation (Greek letter) stars), but for many routine Flamsteed-designation (numbered) stars, they're usually pretty unremarkable unless a planet was discovered around them (eg, 51 Pegasi). -- Curps 03:00, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Curps...see a couple articles above. I brought this up with Merovingian a while ago. I vote keep all stars. Star notability is an ongoing discussion that may require a formal policy to handle.--Gaff ^talk 03:51, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Question

Ryan-

My name is Robert Campana (rcnj), and I was in the 2003 National Geographic Bee as the New Jersey finalist. Are you the same Ryan Wetherell who was in that bee, the contestant from Alaska? Your picture also seems familiar, like from one of the flyers I got at the bee.

-Robert —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.115.52.35 (talk • contribs)

Your title's color

Wow! That color of your signature is so cool. How can I get a color like that? How can I change my signature's color at all? --Screwball23 02:19, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, I played around with the numbers and colors, but I really would like to see some information on how to program a certain signature's colors on my Preferences. I looked at Wikipedia, but there isn't an article exclusive to that. Maybe you can direct me to an article that shows me how to program a preferred font color in my signature.

Thanks Again!--Screwball23 14:20, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

There are a lot of ways I could have my signature, but I would like to try it as Screwball23 where the "Screw" is in teal, turqoise, or light blue or maybe from dark blue to light blue/blue-green across the letters, then the ball is written in Red (b), Orange (a), Yellow (ll), and the numbers in green (2) then violet (3). I know, my directions are not too easy to see. Please, feel free to send me the code or advise on how to get the coloring done. I really appreciate any help you can give me.

Thank you! --Screwball23 16:43, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Excellent! You got the colors perfect! I have the code, but now I am unable to copy and paste the material onto my Preferences. When I go to Preferences, I see no Signature area. I see a Nickname, but no Signature. I really don't mean to bother you, but I am not sure how to put it in preferences and it won't take effect until then.

--Screwball23 01:53, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Great! The colors all work! I got the signature as I wanted it. I can't thank you enough. The only problem is that my signature doesn't provide a direct link to my user page or talk page. That is a little bit of a bummer. Other than that, you did an excellent job! Thank you so much!

--Screwball23 16:04, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

American spelling change?

Hi. I'm wondering why you changed the spelling of the "Did You Know?" question about the Canon Episcopi to the American style. Is the Main Page American-spelling only? Jkelly 20:21, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

No worries. Jkelly 16:20, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar

For meritorious work here. Molotov (talk)
23:11, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Neuro-linguistic Programming

Could you please add this page to your watch list, and check in from time to time? We really need an another outside opinion on this. Can you please also comment on my behaviour in the Talk pages/editing because I want to be doing the right thing, but I am having trouble keep the discussion on topic, and have been shouted at for making changes and demanding citations for what I consider false or overly critical claims. Your advice in this area would be most appreciated. We also now have a task list it might give us some direction. best regards, --Comaze 00:30, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

John Kerry's 1st wound

I object to your removal of the wiki link to the word wound which I had only recently added to the John Kerry article. Furthermore, I feel it's unfair of you to act unilaterally the way you did. I ask that you restore that wiki link, review the talk page for that article and better explain your action there (Talk:John Kerry). Thanks. Rex071404 ^{216.153.214.94} 07:06, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

I do not agree with your justification [1] as to why you removed the wiki link from John Kerry. You have left out of your calculation the very real edititorial disagreements at that page over how much attention to draw to the minor nature of Mr. Kerry's 1st wound. My view is that readers DO benefit from a wiki link which informs them about wounds, especially since many critics of Mr. Kerry have many times very publicly criticized him for "puffing" in regards to his wounds. If it's not a big deal to you, I ask you to please restore that wiki link. I think it's important and I think it makes the article better, not worse. Also, if you notice, in the Kerry article, the word shrapnel which immediately precedes the instance of the word wound from which you removed the wiki link, links to a page which talks in very broad terms about shrapnel. By including the 1st link, but not the 2nd, the editorial result is to confuse rather than clarify, expecially since the shrapnel page closes the section on World War 1 with "Shrapnel can cause light or heavy wounds (or damage)". I see no reason why John Kerry should link to shrapnel which then links to Physical trauma (though the link is named "wounds"), if John Kerry is not going to link to wound. Rex071404 ^{216.153.214.94} 07:39, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Futher reply here Rex071404 ^{216.153.214.94}

Hydrocarbons on other planets

This article has been rewritten to reflect current knowledge. I urge you to take a look at it and reconsider your delete vote. Thanks. Denni ☯ 03:04, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Bancassurance

Why did you delete this (protected against recreation) Wiktionary redirect? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 08:23, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, if you would undelete (or I can do it) I think it would be best. It would be inactive, of ocurse, because it's protected; also, the attempts to recreate it are widely spaced. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 08:33, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Great, thanks a lot. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 08:53, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

hi man , nothing new —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.201.230.111 (talk • contribs)

dont u do nothing ?just wiki ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.201.230.111 (talk • contribs)

but from where u get content ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.201.230.111 (talk • contribs)

User talk:Nengli02

Not sure why you decided to unprotect this User talk page. Yes, he is permabanned, but he can still be disruptive/offensive with edits such as this. I think The Anome had the right idea there... Your call. Owen× ☎ 20:07, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

question

Thanks for the welcome note! Is there a way to hide or erase a contribution? I was showing Wikipedia to a friend who then decided to edit the sex slang page, but didn't log out for me.MrBee 00:49, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Please cut me some slack

It seems to me from some of your comments about the Answers.com thing that you don't have the full information. I hope that you'll be so kind as to cut me some slack before jumping to conclusions.

You're one of my favorites, and I hope that I'm one of yours. So, you know, we can probably relax just a little bit and seek information?--Jimbo Wales 05:34, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry

It's not that I'm trying to blame any particular person, least of all you, for trying to commercialize Wikipedia. I simply think that going so far as to put a link on the sidebar is too active a thing to do for a friend of Wikipedia. I will openly admit that I've probably been way too harsh. I think I'll remove myself from the "Participants" section of the No Ads WikiProject.

I'm just... flattered(?) --Merovingian (t) (c) (e) 05:45, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

The link in the sidebar should be there anyway, and that's entirely unrelated. The link is to our existing "Tools" page, not to their software. Any link to their software will be approved of in the usual way by the community on the Tools page, or it will not appear at all. I was very very careful to structure this deal in such a way as to include the community.

If the community really wants to link to all kinds of proprietary software on that page, and then boycott the one bit of proprietary software which offers to donate money to the community, I'll be very surprised. But if that happens, then that happens.--Jimbo Wales 05:50, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for watching over my user page. I appreciate your vigilance. Nice ASCII art too, by the way! — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:50, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Template:In the news

Could you remove or at least shoren this thing:

The editor of the Sunday Independent apologises to readers and the family of Irish politician Liam Lawlor for wrongly claiming Lawlor was with a teenage prostitute when he was killed in a Moscow car crash on Saturday. However Britain's The Observer controversially refuses to apologise for publishing the now disproven claim.

It clearly does not belong with hurricanes, plane crashes, elections and etc. Renata3 18:15, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Forever Yesterday

Please stop reverting the Forever Yesterday page. Wikipedia maintains a policy on musical artists, one of the key points of this being that the artist much be representative of a particular music scene. The "Pittsburgh rock scene" is represented well enough by other groups, and if you feel like marginalizing and saying they represent the "North Central Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area rock scene", well, then we can debate the merit of keeping the article (even though you won't win). Right now, I'm just concerned with the legality of it, as defined by Wikipedia's standards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.165.87.40 (talk • contribs)

Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Template/Workshop

You, or any Wikipedia user, can contribute your suggestions and comments to the /Workshop page of any active arbitration case. Comments on evidence or proposals can help in understanding the import of evidence and in refining proposals. Proposed principles, findings of fact, or remedies may be listed on /Proposed decision and form part of the final decision. Fred Bauder 14:43, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Signature templates

I was leavign a meassage for User:Screwball23 on another matter, adn i saw you had advised him on how to construct a signature using a template. You may not be aware that signature tempaltes are frowned upon (indeed the preferences page specifically requests that they not be used) because 1) they can be vandalism targets, and 2) they place extra load on the servers every time a page so signed is rendered. Please advise people in future that if they want to use a signature template, use it with the subst keyword, which avoids both of these problems. Thansk. DES ^(talk) 22:57, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

In place of {{User:Foo/Sig}}, use {{subst:User:Foo/Sig}}. adjust as needed for more complex code. DES ^(talk) 23:30, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Macedonian/FYROM denar

What's up with this? Nearly everybody calls this currency the Macedonian denar. --Tony Sidaway ^Talk 12:44, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

The denar

Hello, you have redircted the page Macedonian denar. Why? That is this currency's name. Check the CIA World Factbook, they call it Macedonian denar as does the World Bank. Macedonian denar is this currency's name. REX 12:52, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

phobias

It is useless to redirect them to -phobia article, since they are no more but dicdefs, i.e., a fair game for the wiktionary. But I am open to counter-arguments. My changes are not accidental: I am doing a major clean-up in a number of lists plagued with silliness: -phobia, -phil-, List of Freemasons, etc. It goed slowly, since there are many other things to do. mikka (t) 01:24, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Your signature

I'm probably terribly late but I really liked your multicoloured signature and would love for you to have it back. Do consider re-instating it (you're new one is dull) :) --Cel e stianpower ^háblame 21:09, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

That's highly disappointing. :( --Cel e stianpower ^háblame 22:58, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

It used to be at User:Merovingian/sig didn't it? Could you not just copy that into the nickname box in your preferences and chack raw signatures. taht is of course assuming you haven't tried this yet, which is unlikely. --Cel e stianpower ^háblame 23:13, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Yeah - I imagine it would. You've had complaints have you? --Cel e stianpower ^háblame 11:13, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Happy Diwali

RuneScapeWiki

I was just wondering if you had been to RuneScapeWiki recently. I've left a few comments on your talk page, and yet I see you are a lot more active on here than there. After just checking your user contributions on RuneScapeWiki, you have not edited since September 21st, and on here you have last edited today. I don't want to push you or anything, but do you think you could occasionally check back there, perhaps for talk-page messages or just to see how the wiki's going? Just wondering,and thanks, Link, Hero of Wind 00:35, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

List of country names in various languages under attack !!!

Dear Merovingian,

The List of country names in various languages, List of European regions with alternative names, List of European cities with alternative names, List of European rivers with alternative names, and others, have come under attack by a certain Mikka, who, having just stumbled into all these lists, having found them of little use to himself, and having repeatedly ridiculed them and their users, has then promptly filed a petition to delete the lists in question.

Please cast your vote to keep these valuable, informative, and indeed fascinating lists at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of country names in various languages.

Thanks! 69.25.77.51 16:44, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Re: 2K

Thanks! Now I'm just 2 hours away from cool buttons, too. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 04:53, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Good Job!

It seems every time I tag an article as being a speedy violator, you have already done so. Good job, my friend! One day I hope to be up there in the ranks with you, deleting mmorpgcruft articles on conservative trolls and other stupid jokes to keep our favorite encyclopedia fit as a fiddle. Thanks! Oh, and thanks for your vote in my RfA! -[[User:Mys e kurity|Mysekurity]] ^{[[additions | e-mail]]}_{05:18, 3 November 2005 (UTC)}

Wbsa

hey why did you delete my post on wbsa? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.246.200.13 (talk • contribs)